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    Each of Your Red Sea Datasets is a Legacy
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    RBIS helps you find, use, and share them so they can be useful for all people who research, love, and care the Red Sea including you.
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    Click <a href="/general/help"> here </a> for the <a href="/general/help"> Quick-start guide </a>
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            <div class="doctitle2">Why RBIS?</div>

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    "Fundamental marine research has to be done as a basis for future investigation. Developing it will be a never-ending task, but establishing it will be a great step forward. You cannot determine what is going on in the Red Sea in the next 30 years from a six-week expedition.  Long-term data and large-scale focus are required.” said <a href="http://www.kaust.edu.sa/media/features/marine.html">Professor Hughes</a>, RSRC Symposium, April 9 2011
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    Marine studies, surveys, and observational activities are continuously generating new and diverse data, which are hard to keep track of with tables and spreadsheets. Integrated data and information management systems that collect, analyze, and combine data are needed in order to provide a comprehensive picture of marine environments under study. RBIS is developed to overcome this challenge. RBIS is able to organize, visualize, and do instantly combined analyses of research data from the Red Sea. The current version is accessible <a href="http://rbis.kaust.edu.sa">here</a>
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    RBIS is developed to support Red Sea Research Center Vision
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    The ultimate mission of RBIS is to help Red Sea Research Center (RSRC) achieve its vision. The vision of the Center is a comprehensive scientific understanding of the Coral Reef Ecosystem in the Red Sea, which can the basis for the preservation of this precious resource of the Kingdom. Such a comprehensive understanding requires not only the biological aspects, but also requires an understanding of the environmental, physical, and chemical variability—the oceanography—of the Red Sea. RBIS will be very useful in developing the scientific basis for a robust coastal zone management system in the Region, including an observational network and ocean models.
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    RBIS Publication
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        <p>RBIS paper is on <a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=5603578&tag=1">IEEEXplore</a>
        <p>RBIS was presented <a href="http://www.oceans10ieeesydney.org/home.cfm">IEEE Ocean 10 Conference</a>
        <p>RBIS was featured in <a href="http://www.kaust.edu.sa/media/symposiums/RedSea/2.html">RSRC Symposium</a>
        <p>RBIS was featured in <a href="http://www.nature.com/nmiddleeast/2010/101017/full/nmiddleeast.2010.213.html">Nature Middle East</a>
    
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    Supports for RBIS
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    <p><a href="http://www.kaust.edu.sa/research/centers/redsea.html?submenuheader=0"> KAUST Red Sea Research Center</a>
    <p><a href="http://www.kaust.edu.sa/research/labs/coastal.html?submenuheader=1">KAUST Coastal and Marine Resources Lab </a>
    <p><a href="http://www.kaust.edu.sa/media/features/fahmimachda.html">KAUST Seed Fund </a>
    <p>KAUST IT Department
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    RBIS Team
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Fahmi Machda – Abdurrasyid Mujahid – Amjad  Ali Dars – Ali Nawaz Dars – Christian Voolstra – Noru Moreno – Chandra Prasetyo
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